adior

The batteries in my first tama conx died after about 4 days and then the second one I bought lasted maybe a week and a half. It is strange to me since the batteries in one of the first tamagotchis i had lasted for years. I assume the extra graphics are more draining. At least Bandai was kind enough to add an additional battery in the packaging.

Mothra

There is another battery in the package. I hope every one knows that. Wouldn't want to throw that away.I'm going to wait to put it in though. I have the more reliable Japanese ones going along with one other American one I bought a week after the first two.I'm not happy about that short battery life either.

Faith

I think once you replace the battery and hit reset, you are given the option to download..which means to go back to your character you had before the battery died. Otherwise, you just start a new one (if you don't select download).

Faith

I wonder how long you can wait to keep batteries out and still have your previous info saved? o_o;

That's actually a good question. I'm assuming that the programming makes that X pop up when there's still enough battery life left to keep the character (otherwise it would just shut off). Now the question is...if you take out the battery, do you have a limited amount of time to put in a new one...before you lose the character. It'd be good to know that's for sure!

I guess a good idea would be to always have a spare battery on hand...to avoid the chance of losing your character.